Legal claims defining the scope of protection, as filed with the USPTO.
1. A method comprising: via a session manager, providing access to a communication session on a persistent basis, said session manager communicatively coupled to a repository, said session manager adapted to obtain and cause storage of each instant messaging alias and each client IP address of a plurality of clients authorized to communicate via said communication session, said communication session adapted for one or more online communications originating from at least one message sender and destined for at least one message recipient, said communication session not comprising any voice communication, said communication session not comprising a text to speech application, said session manager adapted to allow said at least one message sender and said at least one message recipient to independently access said communication session without said communication session restarting, said session manager adapted to maintain said communication session in a static condition when no communications are received, said session manager adapted to update said communication session on a real-time basis when communications are received and said at least one message sender and said at least one message recipient are online, said session manager adapted to continue said communication session without restarting when no sender and no recipient are online, said session manager adapted to provide said at least one message sender and said at least one message recipient with a representation of past activity of said communication session upon access to said communication session, wherein said communication session comprises a plurality of frames, said plurality of frames comprising a message frame, an attachment frame, and a doodling frame.
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: initiating said communications session.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein an alert is provided to said at least one message recipient when a message is received from said at least one message sender.
4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: receiving one or more communications from said at least one message sender.
5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: receiving one or more replies from said at least one message recipient.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein said plurality of frames are adjoining.
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein said doodling frame is adapted to receive scribbling.
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein communications are received in a first format and stored in a second format.
9. A method comprising: via a session manager, providing access to a communication session on a persistent basis, said communications session adapted to provide access to received messages from a plurality of clients, said communications session adapted to enable simultaneous real time and off line communications between said plurality of clients, said real time and off line communications not comprising any voice communication, said real time and off line communications not comprising text to speech applications, wherein said real time and off line communications comprises a plurality of frames, said plurality of frames comprising a message frame, an attachment frame, and a doodling frame, said session manager communicatively coupled to a repository, said repository adapted to store said simultaneous real time and off line communications, said session manager accessible in a real time and an offline manner by said plurality of clients, said session manager adapted to update said repository in a real time fashion upon a receipt of messages from said plurality of clients, said session manager adapted to continue said communication session without restarting when none of said plurality of clients are online, said session manager adapted to provide said plurality of clients with a representation of past activity of said communication session upon access to said communication session, said session manager adapted to obtain and cause storage of each instant messaging alias and each client IP address of said plurality of client; authorized to communicate via said communication session.
10. The method of claim 9 , wherein each client is authenticated prior to receiving one or more messages from a client of said plurality of clients.
11. The method of claim 9 , wherein each client communicates via said plurality of frames.
12. The method of claim 9 , wherein communications are stored in a web page format which is dynamically updated in a real time basis.
13. A method comprising: via a session manager, providing access to a communication session on a persistent basis, said session manager communicatively coupled to a repository, said session manager adapted to obtain and cause storage of each instant messaging alias and each client IP address of a plurality of clients authorized to communicate via said communication session, said communication session receptive to both online and offline communications, said communication session not comprising any voice communication, said communication session not comprising text to speech applications, said session manager adapted to update communications within said communication session regardless of an online or offline status of one or more of said plurality of clients, said session manager adapted to maintain said communication session in an always active configuration regardless of said online or offline status of said plurality of clients, said session manager adapted to continue said communication session without restarting when none of said plurality of clients are online, said session manager adapted to provide said plurality of clients with a representation of past activity of said communication session upon access to said communication session, said session manager adapted to provide said communication session via a plurality of frames, said plurality of frames comprising a message frame, an attachment frame, and a doodling frame.
14. The method of claim 13 , further comprising: receiving communications from a client of said plurality of clients.
15. The method of claim 13 , wherein at least one of said plurality of frames comprises message attachments.
16. The method of claim 13 , wherein least one of said plurality of frames comprises a representation of a prior history of communications.
17. The method of claim 13 , wherein communications for offline participants are posted to said communication session as if an offline participant was online.
18. The method of claim 13 , wherein said communications session is provided via a persistent socket connection.
19. The method of claim 13 , wherein communication session is associated with a persistent URL.
20. A method comprising: via a session manager, providing access to a communication session on a persistent basis, said session manager communicatively coupled to a repository, said session manager adapted to obtain and cause storage of each instant messaging alias and each client IP address of a plurality of clients authorized to communicate via said communication session, said communication session adapted for one or more online communications originating from at least one message sender and destined for at least one message recipient, said communication session not comprising any voice communication, said communication session not comprising a text to speech application, said session manager adapted to allow said at least one message sender and said at least one message recipient to independently access said communication session without said communication session restarting, said session manager adapted to maintain said communication session in a static condition when no communications are received, said session manager adapted to update said communication session on a real-time basis when communications are received and said at least one message sender and said at least one message recipient are online, said session manager adapted to continue said communication session without restarting when no sender and no recipient are online, said session manager adapted to provide said at least one message sender and said at least one message recipient with a representation of past activity of said communication session upon access to said communication session.
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May 12, 2009
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